1. Growing Pains are
Natural
If Ignored the Impacts of Growing Pains
can be Dramatic
from their companies, negatively influence their coworkers, miss workdays, and drive
customers away.
Having the vast majority of American employees not engaged with their workplaces is
troublesome as the country attempts to recover ground lost during the financial crisis
and get back on track to pre-recession levels of prosperity. Even more troubling is that
workplace engagement levels have hardly budged since Gallup began measuring them
in 2000, with fewer than one-third of Americans engaged in their jobs in any given year.
Gallup’s extensive research shows that engagement is strongly connected to business
outcomes essential to an organization’s financial success, including productivity,
profitability, and customer satisfaction. And engaged employees are the ones who are
the most likely to drive the innovation, growth, and revenue that their companies
desperately need. These engaged workers build new products and services, generate
new ideas, create new customers, and ultimately help spur the economy to create more
good jobs.
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EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT AMONG THE U.S. WORKING POPULATION
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70% of the US workforce
either hates their jobs or are
completely disinterested in
them. The primary reason
stated: uncaring, ‘toxic bosses
from hell’.
Gallup 2013 State of the American
Workforce Study
Engagement is derived from
the way a senior leader
connects with other senior
leaders in the organization and
how effective and accountable
they are as a unit.
Aon Hewitt 2012 Global Best
Employee Research
q Putting out fires
q Everything is a priority
q Do it myself syndrome
q Lack of follow through
q Don’t understand direction
q Not enough hours in a day
Strategic Alignment Relational Effectiveness
Diligence
Leadership Teams are the Lynchpins for Overcoming Growing Pains
and Effectively Scaling an Organization
Rela%onship
Impact
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of
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growing
organiza%ons.
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or
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informa%on
on
how
RI
can
help
your
team.
Effective leadership
teams are in sync on
where they are going
and how they are
working to get there.
In order to maintain
alignment the
relational fibers among
team members must
be very strong.
The hardest part about
building a high performing
team is the diligence
required for individual and
collective accountability.
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Is your business experiencing
growing pains?